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Margaret Armour, daughter of SMU Dedman School of Law Associate Professor Maureen Armour, returned with powerful photographs taken during the Embrey Human Rights Program’s annual winter pilgrimage to study Holocaust sites in Poland. Eighteen students, professors, academic professionals and community members traveled to the...
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Now showing at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, The 99 Names of God is a collaborative social commentary art project by artists Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet from 11/3/12 through 12/8/12. Much of the show is comprised of five large and intricate bird’s-eye-view drawings of U.S. airports. These, we learn, are the airports used...
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I am currently enrolled in a course titled Jews and Judaism in Modern Israel. My classmates and I were assigned reading on the Supreme Court of Israel and I became interested in the history of the death penalty in Israel.
Before conducting research, I figured that a state steeped in Old Testament law and tradition perhaps would...
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The sixth night in SMU’s Native American Series “Inherent Rights and Forgotten Voices” focused on the prostitution and trafficking of native women in Minnesota. The Embrey Human Rights Program sponsored the series in McCord Auditorium. The program centers on the right to dignity of all people, especially those too often...
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